by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
“So it was, that at my birth in the early part of the 20th century, the Rom had succeeded in neatly sidestepping history. As we traveled slowly from village to village in our luminous wagons drawn by our splendid horses, it worried none of us that we lingered...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
A boy plays on a slide made out of discarded construction material at the Romanian gypsy settlement of “El Gallinero”, on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Nov. 24. More than 400 Romanian gypsies live in precarious conditions, without running water or sewage...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
GYPSIES & ORACLES IN VENICE by Laura Shepard Townsend One morning, I awoke, my mind swirling, still enmeshed within an extensive dream. As I do not remember many of my dreams, I immediately began writing it down so as not to lose any of it to reality and its...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
By Delores Hanney Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse had a special affinity with the four-footed ones of the earth. For some men this might have translated into life as a sheep shearer, contrarily he was set onto a gaudier path...
by Laura Shepard Townsend | Blog
The Lure of a Land by the Sea Venice Vignettes by Delores Hanney “Venice, California sits here, at the far left side of the continent, the spot just before one falls...
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